The Trump government is seizing overseas students from their homes and campuses and even off the streets, with no legal grounds and no due process, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
ALAN SIMPSON warns of a dystopian crossroads where Trump’s wrecking ball meets AI-driven alienation, and argues only a Green New Deal can repair our fractured society before techno-feudalism consumes us all

BIZARRE AS it may seem, Donald Trump and the TV series Adolescence might turn out to be the wake-up call we’ve desperately needed.
Trump is hell-bent on bringing globalisation to its knees; a blessing in itself. But Adolescence offers the starker warning of the techno-feudalism that might follow. It is this alienation from ourselves that brings the biggest challenge. To do so, we need a fundamental rethink of today’s politics and economics.
None of this will stop Trump from reducing the US to a feral, semi-feudal society. It may have been coming anyway. But Trump’s whimsical, on/off, up/down approach to tariffs has left even his most ardent supporters wincing. If the US can no longer be seen as anyone’s reliable ally, the search for a better plan becomes all the more urgent. This is where Adolescence comes in.



